The writer of that sentiment, be it observed, was a physician who by his anatomical discoveries left a permanent impression on the history of medicine.

To the same period with Harvey belongs the celebrated French surgeon, Henri François Le Dran. Le Dran was born in Paris in 1685, and died in 1770. He wrote a treatise on Lithotomy, and was the first to perform the lateral operation for that malady. He also wrote "Observations on Surgery," and another work on "Gunshot Wounds." His skill as a surgeon had not been excelled. His operative procedures were preeminently conservative and original. In surgical dressing Le Dran made use of oil and deodorants, seeking by such means union of wounds by first intention. It was his wont constantly to admonish his pupils to trust more to Nature-the All-Heal of the Master-to assist, not to thwart her. Le Dran was a contemporary of the celebrated Hunter, but not his equal as an anatomist. No man of that period could claim to be that. The Royal Society of London made Le Dran a Fellow.

An English contemporary of Le Dran was William Cheselden, who deserves more than a brief mention. William Cheselden was one of the most celebrated surgeons of his time. He was born in Leicestershire in 1688, and died in 1752. Cheselden was a pupil of the eminent surgeon Cooper, and in turn became a preceptor of John

Hunter after the latter had quit cabinet-making in Scotland and had gone to live with his elder brother in London. He wrote a work on "The Anatomy of the Human Body," and was surgeon to St. Thomas and Westminster Hospitals, London. Lithotomy was his specialty. He was regarded as one of the most skilful all-round operators of his time. Alexander Pope was his intimate friend, and declared him to be "the most noted and the most deserving man in the whole profession of Chirurgery."